The leader of Germany's AfD party has been criticised for trying to give a positive spin to the word "people's"

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The leader of Germany's right-wing, anti-immigration AfD party has been criticised for trying to give a positive spin to the word "voelkisch" ("people's" or "national").

Frauke Petry said it was wrong to equate "voelkisch" with "racist". It is simply the adjective for "Volk" ("People").

The Nazis used the term "voelkisch".

Voelkischer Beobachter ("People's Observer") was a vehicle for Nazi racist ideology. In 2009 controversial reprints of the Nazi daily were confiscated by the authorities when they appeared in a publication called Zeitungszeugen ("Newspaper Witnesses").